nv-l
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: closing the map + ipmap

To: nv-l@lists.tivoli.com
Subject: Re: closing the map + ipmap
From: Rob Napholz <tel1rxn@NJCMAIL.UPS.COM>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 17:02:10 -0400
Thanks James

I will try the export command

I have also increased the timeout from 2 to 3 min when closing the map

What are the effect both good and bad of running
 /usr/OV/bin/nv6000_smit OVWAPPINITSTOP
from the crontab every morning


SHANKS@TIVOLI.COM wrote:
>
> Well, I have seen a similar problem, but not on any recent version of AIX.  
> Mine was back in the time that 4.1.5 was current.
>
> The problem then was that AIX was making the application wait while it 
> released both the paging space on the disk as well as
> the storage in memory when you did a free, and ipmap has a lot of stuff to 
> free when he finishes.  The solution then was to
> export an environment variable, which told AIX not to do that, BEFORE we 
> started the GUI.
>
> You could try that.  Stop all your GUIs,  export NODISCLAIM=true   , and then 
> issue  netview from the same window.   After
> the map synchronizes, close it and see whether ipmap goes way quickly or not. 
>     If it doesn't, then it is time to call
> Support, because you'll need to run traces to find out what ipmap doing.  
> From what you posted, it looks like ipmap is not
> the only one, either, which makes me think this is a system thing and not 
> really a NetView thing.
>
> James Shanks
> Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
>
> Rob Napholz <tel1rxn@NJCMAIL.UPS.COM> on 10/11/99 02:44:41 PM
>
> Please respond to Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView 
> <NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
>
> To:   NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
> cc:    (bcc: James Shanks/Tivoli Systems)
> Subject:  closing the map + ipmap
>
> Has anyone seen this problem ?
>
> When closing the map(file exit) ipmap does not die.
>
> ps -aef |grep tel1rxn
> tel1rxn 26916     1  82 14:22:11      -  7:50 /usr/OV/bin/ipmap
>
> >nv6000
> WARNING: One or more processes are incorrectly parented.
>   PID  PPID COMMAND
> 17174     1 collmap
> 26916     1 ipmap
> 29978     1 ipmap
> 30344     1 collmap
> Run the following as root user to try to correct the problem.
>   /usr/OV/bin/nv6000_smit OVWAPPINITSTOP
>
> If root or the users starts netview, netview will stop/kill ipmap
> causing it to core dump ?
>
> So why isnt ipmap stopping when the map is closed ?
>
> Thanks Rob


<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>

Archive operated by Skills 1st Ltd

See also: The NetView Web